The first time an American president set foot in Hiroshima was in 2016. Then, Barack Obama took a historic symbolic step by visiting ground zero where the United States dropped the nuclear bomb in 1945.
Joe Biden, on tour in Asia to weave a network of alliances against China, will also take a photo at the memorial dedicated to the victims of the atomic bomb. The G7 summit begins on Friday but Biden and his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, have wanted to warm up the event with a bilateral meeting.